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UN / PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD WRAP
STORY: UN / PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD WRAP
TRT: 7:02
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
1. Tracking shot, President Abbas arrives to the UN
2. Tracking shot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu arrives to the UN
3. Various shots, President Abbas and Ban Ki-moon photo-op and round table
4. Wide shot, President Abbas walks to GA podium
5. Pan right, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority:
“When we bring our plight and our case to this international podium, it is a confirmation of our reliance on the political and diplomatic option and is a confirmation that we do not undertake unilateral steps. Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities, the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”
7. Cutaway, US delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority:
“It is neither possible nor practical nor acceptable to return to conducting business as usual as if everything is fine. It is futile to go into negotiations without clear parameters and in the absence of credibility and a specific timetable. Negotiations will be meaningless as long as the occupation army on the ground continues to entrench its occupation instead of rolling it back and continues to change the demography of our country in order to create a new basis on which to alter the borders.”
9. Cutaway, Palestinian and Syrian delegations
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority:
“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestinian refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora to end their displacement and to realize their right, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. At a time when the Arab peoples affirm their quest for democracy, the Arab Spring, the time is not for the Palestinian Spring, then time for independence.”
11. Cutaway, delegations applaud except US and Israel delegations
12. Wide shot, Netanjahu walks to podium
13. Pan right, audience
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanjahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“The truth is that Israel wants peace. The truth is that I ant peace. The truth is that in the Middle East at all times, but especially during these turbulent days, peace must be anchored and security. The truth is that we cannot achieve peace through UN resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. The truth is that so far the Palestinians have refused to negotiate. The truth is that Israel wants peace with a Palestinian state but the Palestinians want a state without peace. And the truth is you shouldn’t let that happen.”
15. Cutaway, US delegation
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanjahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“The core of the problem is not the settlements. The settlements are a result of the conflict. It’s an issue that has to be addressed and resolved in the course of negotiations but the core of the problem is and unfortunately remains the refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish State in any border.”
17. Wide shot, Netanjahu at the podium
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanjahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“President Abbas stop walking around this issue. Recognize the Jewish State and make peace with us. In such a genuine peace Israel is prepared to make painful compromises. We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects, they should live in a free state of their own, but they should be ready like us to compromise and we will know that they are ready for compromise and for peace when they start taking Israel’s security requirement seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland.”
19. Wide shot, delegations together with the US delegation applauding
20. Wide shot, Middle East Quartet Photo-op
21. Wide shot, Middle East Quartet at round table
22. Wide shot, Tony Blair approaches podium
23. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, Middle East Quartet Envoy and former British Prime Minister:
“If the Arab Spring is about greater democracy, If its about making changes in the region that allow people to prosper economically and politically, then actually the State of Palestine is viable and sovereign alongside a secure State of Israel is very much part of that process of change. What ever the rhetoric in the United Nations today and obviously both leaders made very strong speeches setting out their point of view. The fact is once you get beyond that you come back to the same issues, the same core issues that have got to be debated in the same way and at some point they got to be decided.”
25. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
26. Wide shot, Hilary Clinton approaches podium
27. Cutaway, hands taking notes
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States:
“The Quartet proposal represents the firm conviction of the international community that a just and lasting peace can only come through negotiations between the parties. Therefore we urge both parties to take advantage of this opportunity to get back to talks and the United States pledge is our support as the parties themselves take the important next steps for a two state solution which is what all of us are hoping to achieve.”
29. Med shot, Hilary Clinton leaves journalists behind
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today (23 Sept) submitted an application for Palestine to become a United Nations (UN) Member State.
Abbas handed over an application to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN Headquarters in New York this morning. Palestine currently has observer status at the UN.
According to the provisions of the UN Charter, the Secretary-General is tasked with verifying any letter requesting UN membership, after which he sends it to the Security Council and the General Assembly.
The application is considered by the Council, which decides whether or not to recommend admission to the 193-member Assembly, which has to adopt a resolution for the admission of any new Member State.
Later, Abbas told the Assembly’s annual general debate that Palestine is applying for full membership of the UN, on the basis of the so-called 4 June 1967 borders.
“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestinian refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora to end their displacement and to realize their right, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world,” he said.
Also addressing the General Assembly today was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu. “We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects, they should live in a free state of their own, but they should be ready like us to compromise and we will know that they are ready for compromise and for peace when they start taking Israel’s security requirement seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland,” he said.
Later today, the Middle East Quartet, a diplomatic grouping bringing together the UN, the European Union, Russia and the United States (US) held a meeting to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Following the meeting, Quartet Envoy Tony Blair said “if the Arab Spring is about greater democracy, If its about making changes in the region that allow people to prosper economically and politically, then actually the State of Palestine is viable and sovereign alongside a secure State of Israel is very much part of that process of change.”
On the same topic, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said “a just and lasting peace can only come through negotiations between the parties.”
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have been stalled since late September 2010 following Israel’s refusal to extend a 10-month freeze on settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory.
That decision prompted Abbas to withdraw from direct talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which had only resumed a few weeks earlier after a two-year hiatus.
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